I stand corrected. After everything that happened this week, I really didn’t believe there was any way that Dave Joerger could remain the coach of the Memphis Grizzlies. Apparently, I was wrong.

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Despite having interviewed with Flip Saunders and owner Glen Taylor over the last three days, Joerger has apparently turned down an offer to be the next head coach in Minnesota, opting to stay in Memphis instead.

Joerger’s agent confirms in a text to me: “Dave has decided to stay in Memphis.” Stay tuned to see what it means — Jerry Zgoda (@JerryZgoda) May 25, 2014

Initially there were two takes on this. Either Joerger had considered the task of moving his family to Minnesota to take over a team positioned for a rebuild and declined the challenge, or Memphis/Pera/Minnesota are about to play a game of chicken over compensation. Here is what the Grizzlies beat writer has to say about the situation. The Minnesota writers, in particular, seemed sure that Joerger was still headed to the TWolves, but only after the Grizzlies fired him.

Grizzlies owner Robert Pera never should have given T-Wolves permission to speak w/ Joerger if he was going to play hardball on compensation